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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It would be interesting to know the recruitment figures for each successive month since February. Maybe one of our computer crazy chipHeads could extract the data in a couple of minutes.
It would take me longer.
Alternatively, how long did the first 100 take, second 100 take, third 100 take etc. etc.?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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361 in February, 178 in March, 50 in April, 26 in May, 35 in June, 44 in July, 57 in August and 52 so far in September aproximately Captain. 
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David Goldsmith, First Hundred in 6 days, second hundred in 11 days, third in 18 days, 4th in 1 month 5th 1month 2 weeks, 6th 2 months, 7th 3 month 1 week, 700 in 5 months 3 weeks, 800 in 6 months 2 weeks, recently we seem to be gaining 3 to 5 new members per day
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hmm obviosly Alan and myself think alike 
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Alan Craggs, can you explain that please ? I've had too much to drink tonight and cannot think what that means 
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0 05/02
100 11/02 6days
200 16/02 5days
300 23/02 7days
400 05/03 10days
500 22/03 17days
600 12/05 51days
700 01/08 81days
800 19/09 49days
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Very interesting. The long-anticipated autumnal acceleration seems to be emerging.
admin, a fun money-raising proposition, depending on your attitude to gambling (positive, I'm sure): open a sweepstake for the date of the 1000th snowHead. Nearest date wins. Bets to be placed by 30th September? Admin retains a sensible cut of the stakes - 30 per cent?
I'll pledge an immediate bet of £10 that we hit that figure on 28 October, should you, admin, wish to turn bookmaker - no obligation!
Can we trust each other not to fix the race? Of course we can!
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D G Orf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Special gift for the 1000th member? A friend of my wife bought something on a site last week and became the millionth purchaser, thereby winning a holiday to the Caribbean. Allegedly...
Maybe a sticker would be fine for a snowhead though...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alan Craggs, ah thanks for that, yes I suppose she's not bad but I prefer other actresses over her
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You know it makes sense.
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Well...... I could make the counter invisible, say from 950 onwards?
Would that spoil or increase the excitement?
Though i don't think DG was suggesting that the prize go to the 1000 registree themselves. I think the idea is a sweepstake where each participant chooses a day that they think the 1000th member will register.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Still... I can think of a way to guarantee winning, even without the counter 
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Poster: A snowHead
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PG, do tell ? After your expose on Snow Awards multiple voting, you're our acknowledged expert on stuff like this. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Alan Craggs, you are both Moderators so maybe your magic powers could do the trick ???? But D G Orf also seems to be able to analyse past records of membership.
If it's fixable, all bets are OFF. But then most gambling is fixed anyway. Shame - could have been a source of extra income for Admin.
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Now we know why governments adopt the simplest most incorruptible method of promoting gambling: the random number generating machine.
The challenge for running this sweepstake is to ensure that new snowHeads continue to register at random, free of influence of any sweepstake competitor.
If the chief objective is to raise a bit of finance for the site, and everyone enters it in that spirit (known in National Lotteryspeak as a 'good cause') we should be free of suspicion and intrigue. But it's true that we can never achieve the perfection of the random number generator, though we'll probably be less open to corruption than a horse race!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Of the 800 members, interestingly 290 have yet to post and only 344 have made 5 or more posts.
Maybe a less "fixable" method would be to make a sweepstake for when there were 500 members that had posted a 5th comment. Mods could not join in of course!!
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kuwait_ian, From my exalted position of Snow Reports Mod alone, my magic powers are about equal to Tommy Cooper's on an off day....
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Where did that revelation come from?
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Off topic - there's a wonderful statue in a square in Cairo of a geezer in a suit and a fez with an outstretched hand. Probably Kamal Ataturk. Known to all the city's many Expats as 'Tommy Cooper Square'
Not like that.
Am I being thick or what ???? I can understand how you could perhaps 'fix' becoming the 1000th member but not how a guessed date, made well in advance, of when we will hit the mark can be influenced (much).
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David Goldsmith, sorry - now it's my turn to be dense (again!) , how is that a revelation?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I'm glad you asked me that one, Alan.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Back on topic - I doubt if you can run such a sweepstake - gambling is highly regulated and this is a public forum so you cann't hide it.
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You know it makes sense.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
admin, a fun money-raising proposition, depending on your attitude to gambling (positive, I'm sure): open a sweepstake for the date of the 1000th snowHead. Nearest date wins. Bets to be placed by 30th September? Admin retains a sensible cut of the stakes - 30 per cent?
I'll pledge an immediate bet of £10 that we hit that figure on 28 October, should you, admin, wish to turn bookmaker - no obligation! |
Afraid you've lost your bet DG - but not by much! looks like we'll be there before the weekend....
Anything special planned for our 1,000th member? Ideas?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Anything special planned for our 1,000th member? Ideas? |
How about they get a round in for the rest of us?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PG,
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Afraid you've lost your bet DG - but not by much! looks like we'll be there before the weekend....
Anything special planned for our 1,000th member? Ideas?
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Actually, DG won the bet, as he was the nearest on the basis that there were no other takers. That means that as it was a sweepstake, he gets back his stake, minus the 30% that he pledged to Admin. So, he won the bet, but still lost money - I guess that just about sums up gambling!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Only 6 more to go to hit the magic 1000. Hope Admin is ready with the pruning shears to trim any doppleganger snowHeads registering with a second name just for the glory of grabbing the K.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Anything special planned for our 1,000th member? Ideas?
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A special avatar perhaps. Dosn't cost anything and would hang around until the lucky member breaks the 500 post level and goes Hors Piste.
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It would be interesting to be able to sort the membership list by date that they last contributed, as I can imagine that at any one period, there are actually very few people that are actually writing in. The 1000 member list doesn't mean so much on a forum, if they are all listening and not contributing. It would also be interesting to see when people last visited, again, I suspect that there are a large number that have stopped visiting.
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Ray Zorro, In some respects lurking is as important as contributing. Information is being passed on, even if contributors are unaware of the fact. Many people lurk - I've often clicked on the ids of those on line, to discover that those concerned have been members for some time, yet have 0, or very few, posts to their names.
And let's not forget the increasing number of guests who read the forum. The number of actual regular contributors is only one indicator of the importance of a web community.
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Welcome Tim - we do hope you will join in the chat. Would be a shame if member 1 K only reads and does not post.
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